As many as 300 people died, with nearly 500 others wounded in the bomb attack when a truck laden with explosives was detonated at the entrance of Safari Hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu. They were all civilians. 

In the terrorist attack on a mosque, reportedly belonging to Sufis, in the Egyptian city of al-Arish after the Friday prayer, 305 people died, 27 of them children.

It is said the attack was carried out by Daesh. This organization, of which the founder and for what purpose it was founded is now known, which has harmed the religion of Islam than Israel, than the Crusades, has shed Muslim blood in Egypt as well, in the deadliest attack in Egypt’s modern history. 

Why? In whose name? Which religion, which sect, which Islamic jurisprudence, which law, which scholar says, “You can randomly explode a bomb while people are leaving a mosque and kill hundreds of innocent Muslims”?

So, these murderers say they believe in the same religion, the same prophet, the same God as us, do they? So, the “mullahs, imams, sheikhs” who breed this mentality in madrasahs, in run-down barracks, in camps think they are serving Islam, do they?

I saw a photograph showing the current state of Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque. This mosque, which I had seen before and during the war, has turned into rubble. Those who brought this mosque to such a state, one of the most precious mosques of Islamic history, one of the most valuable examples of our architecture; which religion, which sect, which Islamic jurisprudence, which ideology are they a part of?

This is where the problem begins. Trying to prove which sect has the most malicious, most savage, most murderous members does nothing more than further deepen the quagmire which we have fallen into.

Regardless of sect, as a result of the outcome, do those who carry out these massacres, these murders, these atrocities have a “Muslim” identity or not? Are Muslims and Islam made to pay the price or not?

Regardless of sect, those who breed, raise and release this mentality on the ground are the ones harming Islam. They are the ones taking the entire civilization back to the Middle Age.

So, those blasting themselves up are not the agents of foreign organizations. Then, who raises, motivates these people who have become putty in the hands of these organizations?

Then, brave men of religion, scholars must announce that these savages, these murderers who kill children, who kill innocent people are not “Muslim,” that they are not “one of us.” The Muslim community should be showing the greatest reaction to the terrorist attacks of these murderous organizations. Isn’t warning, awakening the youth who have joined these organizations, the people who have been fooled, stopping them from falling into their dirty traps the greatest religious duty?

The problem is not with foreign powers, foreign states alone, it is also within us. 

The magnitude of destruction will become clearer in the following generations. We are going to see together how deism, atheism, nihilism will spread through the new generation as a major movement.